*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $80. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up quietly until the day it is genuinely in your way. Book a Capital City pickup with LoadUp, see your upfront price first, and skip the lifting.
You skim the collection rules, call whoever handles pickup on your street, then leave messages with two haulers and hear back from one. Three weeks later, you are still walking around it.
Set-outs run on a schedule you request ahead of time, with limits on how many items go at once. Construction debris, tires, and refrigerant appliances usually fall outside the program, and details shift between contract years. Whatever qualifies, you still carry to the curb.
Most local haulers want to walk the job before quoting, which means an estimate visit on their schedule, then a number based on how full their truck looks. The figure you hear on the phone and the one you pay can differ.
Reuse outlets around the area take what they can resell, which rules out stained upholstery, older televisions, and most mattresses. Even when they say yes, you are loading it and driving it there, and the broken half of the pile stays home.
A container sits in your driveway for days, and placement on the street can require permission first. On the tight drives and rear alleys common around Groesbeck, finding a legal spot gets complicated fast, and you are still the one filling it.
Enter your ZIP code and item details to get a guaranteed upfront price online. No waiting for an onsite estimate.
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No waiting on callbacksLocal Loaders arrive at your location, haul away the junk, and dispose of it responsibly when options allow.
No in-person charges
Most companies charge by truck space, and the price often changes on arrival. LoadUp charges by item, based on exactly what you're removing.
Across all options, not just ours: a real breakdown of what Lansing residents typically pay, so you know what's fair before you book.
Sofas, dressers, bed frames, tables, and more hauled away with ease.
Available in twin, full, queen, king, and California king sizes.
Covers refrigerators, washers, dryers, ovens, dishwashers, water heaters, and more.
Whole-property cleanouts for moves, estates, evictions, and renovations.
TVs, monitors, computers, printers, stereo equipment, and small electronics.
Includes treadmills, ellipticals, weight benches, stationary bikes, and home gym systems.
Add a single bulky item like a couch, dresser, or mattress to your booking.
Mixed everyday items including broken goods, old decor, and accumulated clutter.
Bagged trash, loose debris, and general household waste of all kinds.
Covers drywall, lumber, tile, fixtures, and mixed demolition scrap.
Includes branches, brush, grass clippings, leaves, and other organic yard waste.
Desks, chairs, filing cabinets, cubicle panels, and other office items included.
Moving boxes, shipping cartons, and leftover packing cardboard.
First item includes the pickup fee. Each additional item is a flat add-on. *See Lansing's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A sectional coming up unfinished basement stairs or down from a second-floor walk-up takes real skill. Your Loaders are background-checked and rated by real locals in Lansing after each job.
If everything is already at the street or sitting in the driveway, curbside keeps it simple and your Loaders take it from there. Older Lansing homes with narrow stairwells, rear alley access, or a packed basement usually call for full service, where your Loaders carry each item out from inside.
| Pickup Option | Highlight | Best For | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-home pickup | Full-service | Removal from anywhere inside your home | from $80 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $75 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before noon | from $90 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $80 |
| Multi-item pickup | Bundle & save | Add-on items in the same pickup for less | from +$15 |
| Item add-on | Optional | Bundle with your junk pickup | from +$15 |
| Full cleanout | Volume discount | Entire room junk removal | Custom |
| Disassembly service | Optional add-on | Large or difficult-to-move items | Custom |
* Starting prices. Final price confirmed by ZIP code and pickup conditions. Volume discounts applied automatically.
Nobody in Lansing needs a reminder of what spring does to the pavement here. Strapping a dresser into a borrowed truck and bouncing down a frost-heaved side street, then hunting for somewhere that takes it, is a rough Saturday. Your Loaders do the carrying instead, and they like showing up for the people in this town.
Most Lansing junk removal jobs mix a few still-usable pieces with things that gave out years ago. Where each item ends up depends on its condition, so sorting happens before anything reaches an Ingham County landfill.
Furniture and household goods that are clean, intact, and ready to use again may be offered to area reuse outlets when those organizations are accepting that category and have room for it.
Worn items nobody would buy secondhand can still hold recoverable material. Metal, appliance components, and electronics go to recycling channels where available, since Michigan handles several of those categories separately.
Water-damaged sectionals, collapsed box springs, and similar bulk from Lansing basements and garages head to landfill or transfer station disposal, handled responsibly under whatever rules currently apply locally.
Set the wrong pile at the curb and you risk a violation notice and cleanup costs. Here is what Lansing and Ingham County actually require.
In Lansing, anything too large to fit inside your blue trash cart with the lid fully closed counts as a bulk item. Collection is requested and paid per item in advance, and that charge is not refundable.
Lansing's rubbish ordinance lists building and demolition materials, concrete, rocks, logs, stumps, and vehicle parts as unacceptable bulk items. Renovation and teardown waste has to move through private hauling or a paid self haul drop off instead.
Part 115 keeps leaves, grass, garden debris, and brush under four feet long and two inches thick out of landfills to protect capacity, which is why Lansing collects yard waste separately for composting. Diseased and invasive material is the exception.
Federal Clean Air Act rules require a certified technician to capture refrigerant from refrigerators, freezers, window air conditioners, and dehumidifiers before disposal. Venting it is illegal, which is why Freon bearing units carry extra handling steps across Michigan.
The state electronic waste takeback program makes manufacturers of computers, monitors, printers, and televisions fund free recycling for Michigan households and small businesses. Michigan has no household landfill ban on electronics, but registered recyclers keep lead and lithium out of the ground.
Paint, solvents, pesticides, motor oil, and similar products are not allowed in Lansing trash carts. Ingham County operates a free household hazardous waste drop off for county residents on Tuesdays and Thursdays from May through September. Business waste is refused.
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(678) 884-4738Not without scheduling it first. Lansing's Capital Area Recycling and Trash program requires a scheduled bulk item collection, which you can arrange at (517) 483-4400 or lansingrecycles.com. Items set out without an appointment violate city trash rules and can bring a fine.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Lansing starts at $80 for one item, and curbside or driveway pickup takes $5 off. The first item covers the base pickup fee, each extra item is a flat add-on, and your total is confirmed before you book. Granger cart customers also get one free large item pickup a year, up to $50 in value.
Same-day and next-day slots open across most Lansing zip codes when you book early, and availability gets tighter later in the day. Enter your address during booking to see live openings. For curbside loads you do not need to be home, just leave access notes.
Hazardous materials stay off the curb. Paint, gasoline, batteries, pesticides, and other chemicals are not accepted in city bulk pickup. Ingham County residents can drop these free at 5303 South Cedar Street on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2 to 6 p.m., May through September. Note that latex paint is not taken there.
Loaders sort what they haul and aim to keep usable items out of the landfill. Furniture, clothing, and household goods go to local charities when they are accepted, electronics and metals route to recyclers when options allow, and only what is left goes to a licensed disposal site. Outcomes depend on each item's condition.
You book online or by phone with your item list and zip code, and your price is locked before anyone is dispatched. On pickup day your Loaders call ahead, usually around 30 minutes out, then handle all the lifting and loading. For curbside jobs you can leave items out with instructions and skip being there.
Mainly pricing and booking. 1-800-GOT-JUNK and College Hunks price by truckload after an in-person look, so your number is not set until the crew arrives. LoadUp prices per item online and locks it before pickup. For single or two-item jobs, that upfront quote is often the lower route.
Yes, LoadUp takes on everything from a single item to a whole-property cleanout across Lansing and Ingham County, including areas like Old Town, REO Town, and the Eastside. You list what needs to go, the per-item pricing adds up to a total you see upfront, and Loaders do the hauling.
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